Too bad ol’ Doc Prather is retired now. If he wasn’t, I guarantee to you that he would point out that buried in all the scaremongering about what Iran “may” be up to, the new IAEA report [.pdf] says:

“[T]he Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material at the nuclear facilities and LOFs [locations outside facilities where nuclear material is customarily used] declared by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement.”

He might also point out that all the implosion systems in the world are worthless without some actual fissile material to implode, and that nothing else in the IAEA report is any of the IAEA’s “beeswax” (That’s a funny way of saying “business” for those readers who didn’t grow up on American playgrounds.) He’d be right.

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One question about this IAEA report: given that the real difficulty in producing nukes isn't knowledge but rather the huge investment in engineering infrastructure that must be made, how is Iranian "knowledge" at all material to the issue of whether they're illegally proliferating?

Using their own twisted logic, expressed daily by our insane government, merely having the mental capacity to contemplate, or even verbalize what is verboten in their eyes, makes you an existential threat. Just ask that kid who got blown up for rubbing shoulders with the "wrong" parent.